St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-04-04
AMERICAS FINE WOMEN.
Col. Patrick Danan Meets u Lot of
Them i'm Washing ton and IL
Happy.


Happy.
Chicago News.
did have good time in Washington?
Would duck have good time in ten
acre lot Of June bugs?"
Thus spoke Col Patrick Donan. who
has just returned from the national cap
ital.
Leaving out of the count the gorgeous
entertainments of such people as the Whit
neys, and some OF the Pacific slope bonan-
Zaites, who set out to free feed themselves
into Immortality, it has been an endless
whirl of receptions. lunches, dinners,
muSicales, balls and teas, teas, teas, till
pam, hOrny-handed son OF toll from DEVILS
Lake, OAK, found himself leased almost to
death or distraction.
| What gave the season its brllllancy?
why the women, to be sure. In spite OF all
the trash and twaddle of such penny-a-lne
| libellers as Henry James, there are no wo-
men OH Gods green earth that compare
with our own American women. A lady
! Iii Washington the other day asked me If in
all my travels had not found some country
1 preferred to my own. l said: Madam,
when contemplate our American politics
and politicians l do it with patent nipper
clothespin OH my nose. When l look at
our congresses legislatures, and boards of
| aldermen OF think of the vile herd
That we allow to vote and control
our national. state and municipal gov
ernments, I am filled with unutterable
l0athlng, and often feel like eXpatriat-
lEg myself. But one thing holds inc true
to my native land. [ might change my
country, but where could ever find such
countrywomen? have seen the women OF
nearly every land and race under heaven,
and one genuine American girl or woman
combines in herself the best and lovellest
qualities of them all-the fire and senti-
ment of the ideal Spanish senorita or
Italian SignOra, the exquisite taste OF the
French madam or mademoiselle, and the
pure, high womanhood Of the English maid
or matron, with grace and beauty to- be
found in our own glorious hemisphere
alone. There is no God but Allah, and
our women are His masterpieces. NV pa
triOtiSm, madam, has feminine string to
it. My loyalty is mistaken while our
American women remain as they are. peer
less among all the nationalities of the
world.
''And Washington this season has
Swarmed with lovely specimens of this
matchless new world womanhood. l have
not seen So many beautiful women and girls
together since the days when Matte Ould,
Lizzie CabelI, jamie Sutherlin and Sallie
Rutherford. of Virginia. Bette Vance,
Kate and Emma Ward, and Lena Jacobs.
of Kentucky. Salle Shannon, of Kansas,
Laura Dennis and Alice Freeney, of Mary
land, and all their beauteous sisterhood
gave the White Sulphur Springs world
wide fame.
'.Who was the belle? 1 have too much
r1 far, tn ho1 riri
power reply to that question. There were
several Of her. Such receptions as Mrs.
Carlisle's. Mrs. CoekrelPs, Mrs. Vance's,
Mrs. John Shernans. Mrs. Cheatham's,
Mrs. Dolph'S, Mrs. Zane's, Mrs. Bette
| Book Goodloe's, the Misses Riggs, or Nine.
| ROmero's literally swarmed with girls and
| young married women, any one OF whom
would worthilY wear the rose-leaf chaplet
of belleship or the golden crown of queen
ship. l rather think Kentucky and Ten
nesse carried off the first honors.
Miss Curire Duke. daughter OF Gen.
Basil Duke. of Knoxville, KY, was Ger
tainly one of the queens of the rosebud gar
/ den of girls; a dainty and bewitching little
brunette, slender and willowy. with deli
cately chiselled features and great dark
brown eyes that l once described as like
those OF a started young antelope fawn
She is marvellous performer on the violin.
genius, and a beauty, and was in such
constant demand that if she had been two
dozens Of herself they would all have been
kept busy receiving attention. giving
pleasure. and hearing pleasant things SAID
about themselves.
Miss Susie Preston Hart, of Versailles
KY. was another of the favorites-tall.
magnificent in figure, with face fault
less in its loneliness: fair as the evening
air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars
eXquisitively arched eye brows. and soft
brown eyes that sometime seem to change
to the gray OF tropical DAWN; charming
land bright i'll conversation. she was always
surrounded by asbattalion OF admirers.
Miss Mary l.. bearing. of Lynehburg
Va, who was under the ehaperonage O
Mrs. Clement G. Clay, of Alabama, woult
be a belle in any assemblage of lovely
women. She is a brunette. with dark
brown eyes and a wealth of brown hail
browning head classical in shape ane
pose. Her manners are wonderful sweet
and winning, and she is brilliant CONVEX
sationalist. In fact. hampton. of the Critic
now and then used her sparkling speeches
to spice his Judge WaXem columns.
Miss Agnes Dolph, daughter of the sen
ator from Oregon, a tall and queenly bru
Odeneal, make charming pair to draw to.
and Mrs. Dolphs receptions are Away.
crowded
Miss Tompkifs, of Louisville regal
looking girl. with siiperb dark eyes and
form that Juno herself might have proudly
worn among all the classic gods and god
desses of high Olympus; and her two cU.ls
ins. Miss Goodloe, a golden haired, musical.
voiced blonde and Miss Clay. an enehatine
little debutante, formed Kentucky trinity
Three Graces of the Blue Grass Eden-at
Senator Beck's, whose praises were on many
tongues.
Miss Lima Harrison, daughter of Mayor
Harrison. of Chicago, received a great deal
of attention. and was much admired. East
ern women wondered if it were possible
that her costumes were made III Chicago,
and one of the brightest of all Washing
tonians. Miss SellInan K Hennegan. de-
clared that iii dress She wore at the re-
ceptiol at Nine. Romeros. she was per-
feet dream of exquisteness.'
Il can only call the roll of few out of
many. Among others we'll worthy of lofty
inches in the temple of social fame was
| Miss Beeheam, OF Louisville, very stylish
and handsome blonde; Miss Pauline
Acklen, lovely and accomplished girl,
whose receptions at her hospitable home
OH Iowa circle are among the
most largely attended and popular at Wash
ingtOn: tile Misses Murphy, of st. Paul.
superb looking blondes of many attractive
gifts, who were visiting Senator and Mrs
Sabin; John Oberlys daughter, Miss Edith
who is as bright as a buShel baSketful of
lightning bugs; Miss Herbert. daughter of
| the Alabama congressman, fair as an apple